Of the three Bernie the Burglar books I've read, this is the daftest - and best! And best because daftest. Block's deliberate send-up of the country house mystery genre is silly, funny and unsurprisingly involves corpses piling up in a place Bernie is trying to steal from...
My least favorite of the Rhodenbarr novels.
Lawrence Block's latest Bernie Rhodenbarr novel, The Burglar in the Library is based on the premise that Raymond Chandler to Dashiell Hammett, gave it to him, and then the book was inadvertently left at the place where the two had met for drinks. That building, an old mansion, became a classic Engli...
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